Major donors Boone Pickens, Phil Knight are polar opposites

 
BY SCOTT WRIGHT | Modified: December 28, 2008 at 12:36 am | Published: December 28, 2008   

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Neither Boone Pickens nor Phil Knight played college football.

But you can’t have a discussion about either man without eventually turning to the sport. No donor in all of college football is as connected to his university as Knight to Oregon and Pickens to Oklahoma State.

photo - Boone Pickens in the Oklahoman studio Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. BY JACONNA AGUIRRE/THE OKLAHOMAN. ORG XMIT: KOD
Boone Pickens in the Oklahoman studio Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. BY JACONNA AGUIRRE/THE OKLAHOMAN. ORG XMIT: KOD

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Together, they’ve given more than half-a-billion dollars to their universities, mostly to the football programs. And though Pickens and Knight are similarly linked for their donations,...
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